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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The City of Rancho Santa Margarita Gets Ready to Welcome Home Its Adopted 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines

City Hosts Homecoming Festivities at Camp Pendleton and Is
Looking for Volunteers

Posted by CotoBlogzz

Rancho Santa Margarita, California – The City of Rancho
Santa Margarita is gearing up to welcome home its adopted 2nd
Battalion, 5th Marines (2/5) Regiment, scheduled to arrive in
mid-September following a seven month deployment to Afghanistan.

2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5) is an infantry battalion
in the United States Marine Corps consisting of approximately 800 Marines and
Sailors,based out of Marine Corps
Base Camp Pendleton, California and fall under the command of the 5th Marine
Regiment and the 1st Marine Division. The battalion has seen combat in World
War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and has deployed
many times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the current War on
Terror.

2/5 is the most highly decorated battalion in the Marine
Corps and their motto, "Retreat, Hell!", comes from the French
trenches of World War I, when a Marine officer named Lloyd W. Williams was
ordered to retreat and replied, "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"

The City will be hosting homecoming festivities for nearly
1,200 Marines and Sailors at Camp Pendleton to care for
waiting families and to give the welcome home that our heroes deserve.

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Festivities will include music, food, crafts and goody bags
for the kids, poster-making supplies, bounce houses and raffle prizes.

To make this a true community event, the City is looking for
volunteers to help serve food, prepare goody bags, roll towel sets, greet
families and cheer on our Marines.

Sponsors are also needed for raffle prizes, food, drinks,
toys, and party favors.

There are many other ways individuals, families, groups, and businesses can be involved
before and during the five homecoming dates.

A flyer with all of the ways you can help is posted on the
City’s website at www.cityofrsm.org. If you are interested in joining
the City in giving our 2/5 Marines a hearty welcome home, please contact
resident volunteer Cindy Farnum at farnumpc@gmail.com.

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